Clothes hanger



1931iv c. w. LINDGREN I 1,820;468

' CLOTHES HANGER Filed June 11. 19:50

Patented Aug. 25, 1 931 PATENT OFFICE CARL w. LINDGREN, or LOS ANGELES, csmronnm .CLOTI-IES I Application filed J'une 11,

I This invention relates to improvements in clothes hangers.

An object of the invention is to provide an improved clothes hanger which is of simple wand durable construction on which a garment, such as a pair of trousers, may be easily mounted and held properly in such position as well as be conducive to preserve creases formed in pressing.

Another object of the invention is to provide a clothes hanger having a transverse bar, which bar may be the body of a clothes hanger itself or a part thereof and which has two sleeves slidably mounted on the bar, each having a garment engaging means so that a garment may be suspended therebetween, the sliding ability of the sleeves enabling the device to be adj usted-to varlously sized garments and also being such that when the garment is suspended by the clothes hanger the sleeves will bind on the bar, keeping the garment. taut in the desired position.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device which can be easily applied to bar hangers now in general use, enabling such bar hangers to be converted into clothes hangers of the improved construction.

With the foregoing and other objects in View, which will be mademanifest in the following detaileddescription, and specifically pointed out in the appended claims, reference is had to the accompanying drawings for an illustrative embodiment of the invention, wherein:

improved clothes hanger illustrating a pair of trousers as having been mounted thereon. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the sleeves'with its garment engaging means.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of thesame.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a construction adapted to be applied to bar hangers now in general use to convert them into clothes hangers of theimproved construction.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the construction illustrated in Figure'4.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a part of the construction illustrated in Figures 4 and 5.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

Fig. 1 is a frontv view in elevation of the wherein similar reference characters desig- HANGER 192p. ,Serial at. 460,446.

ting and properly suspend a gentlemans coat. The ends of the bodylO are connected by a transverse bar 12, preferably cylindrical in form but which may be of other shapes. On the transverse bar 12 there are slidable sleeves 13 and 14. Each sleeve has secured thereto two sections of wire, indicated at 15 and 16, the outer ends of which are bent downwardly as at 17 forming laterally spaced hooks 18; the crotches of which, indicated at 19, open outwardly and upwardly. The laterally spaced hooks 18 are arranged, as shown in Figur 1, on the outer ends of their respective sleeves. These hooks are adapted to engage upon the garment G and may be inserted through the belt loops L or on suspender buttons 13.

In applying a garment G to the clothes hanger the belt loops L areslipped onto the hooks 18 or the buttons B may be positioned in the crotches 19 depending on whet-her both the belt loops L and buttons B are present and, if so, which is nearest the top of the crease in the trousers produced by pressing. When the garment has thus been applied to the hooks 18, the sleeves 13 and 14 are forced outwardly on the transverse bar 12, thus-stretching the garment G taut between them. When they are released by virtue of the fact that the hooks are arranged on the outer ends of the sleeves and suspend the weight of the garment, the sleeves 13 and 14 bind on the transverse bar 12, thus preventing the inward movement. of the sleeves. In this manner the garment G is held in'the proper position to preserve the creases in the trousers. The garment is nicely suspended and a coat and/or a-vestmay be subsequently applied to the body 10. When it is desired to remove the garment G from the-155.2

clothes hanger a slight manual manipulation of the sleves 13 and 14 will disturb their binding action so that theycan freely slide on the bar 12 toward each other, facilitating removal of the garment G from the hooks. In Figures 4, 5" and 6, there is illustrated slightly modified form designed to convert bar hangers already in general use into clothes hangers of the improved construction. To this end the construction in Figures 4, 5, and 6, comprises a section of sheet metal 20 rolled into cylindrical form and having its opposed edges provided with knuckles 21 and 22. These knuckles are adapted to be.

moved into alignment with each other to receive the shank 23 of the garment engaging means. In this construction the garment engaging means may be formed of a single section of wire reversely bent upon itself at about its center to provide the shank 28 and having its outer ends bent downwardly as at 24 to provide the laterally spaced upwardly and outwardly open hooks 25. In applying this construction to the bar 12 of a bar hanger, the sheet metal section is sprung open suificiently to permit it to be slipped onto the bar. Thereafter it is contracted about the bar until the knuckles 21 and 22 are in alignment. The shank 23 is then inserted, thus fastening the opposed edges of the sheet metal section to each other about the bar and simultaneously mounting the hooks 25 on the sheet metal section which forms the sleeve. The operation of this form of construction is identical with that previously described in connection with the construction illustrated in Figures 1 to 3 inclusive.

From the above described constructions it will be apreciated that a novel, simple and advantageous, clothes hanger is provided,

-which is of simple and durable construction,

enables a garment to be easily and quickly applied thereto or removed, and which serves to suspend the garment in such a position as to be conducive to preserve its press.

Various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the s irit or scope-of the invention as defined y the appendedclaims.

I claim:

1. A garment hanger comprising a transverse bar, a sleeve-split along one side and havin its 0 posed edges provided with knuck es capa le of being positioned in alignment, and garment engaging means having a shank extending through the knuckles.

2. Ina garment hanger, a section of sheet metal rolled into cylindrical form-and hav- ,ing its opposed edges provided with knuckles capable of being positioned in alignment,

- and garment engaglng means having a shank extending through the knuckles.

In test mony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

V CARL W. LINDGREN. 

